Learn Your Tarot. Dress Your Hedgehog.

Tarokko, a new tarot-learning app for iPhone and iPad, gives the deck a daily homework routine. Guess a meaning, flip the card, answer five questions. Alongside the lesson is Brix, a hedgehog who pins mastered cards to his quills and acquires new outfits as the learner advances.

Progress begins with a small test of recall. It comes before the explanation, and the two orientations of a card have their own sequence. Tarokko's website says a reversed card opens once its upright meaning has been learned. Across 78 cards and their two orientations, that order keeps the daily lesson small enough to repeat.

The developer says the artwork was redrawn from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, with meanings written for Tarokko. The album divides the deck into 22 Major Arcana and 56 cards across Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. The same illustrated card is studied in both directions.

In the developer's Strength example, the card remains face down while its name and reversed orientation are already visible. Three possible meanings sit beside it. Turning it over reveals the inverted woman and lion, followed by keywords about doubt, force and exhaustion. The explanation draws attention to the two figures falling out of step, tying the vocabulary back to the image.

A review question uses a different arrangement. An upside-down Hermit appears above four pairs of possible meanings, including isolation and loneliness. A five-part bar tracks the short quiz. Beyond that day's questions, the website lays out review intervals of one, two, four, eight and sixteen days. Three correct answers in a row mark a card as mastered.

That tally feeds Brix's wardrobe. The hedgehog has six levels, from Sprout through Master, with a different outfit at each level. The official wardrobe image offers a star hat, a red scarf and a teapot hat. The last is being worn, complete with a cup held in Brix's paws. The wardrobe sits beside a weekly study report and badges for completed sets, making the costume part of the same progress page as the card count.

The support page supplies a more precise definition of that progress. The level count uses upright cards out of 78. The collection screen arranges them by Major Arcana and suit, with check marks attached to mastered cards. In the official example, 22 completed Major Arcana and nine Wands add up to the 31-card tally at the top. These are demonstration figures. Each card can also be opened to read both orientations, giving the album a role as a reference between quizzes.

An evening diary closes the routine with a single line about where the day's card came to mind. After the questions and review, the day ends in the learner's own notebook. Brix's next outfit waits further along the card count.